#qfestions

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Sparky gets one of those extremely specific targeted shirt ads that says "I'm A Heartbroken MILF, Born In The Valley, Who Reads Magazines And Owns A Mascot Costume. My Ex Is In Jail!" And every sentence is in a different font.

I ha te ti I HATe It Also her ex is apparently NOT in jail -Hallie

#quest friends #quest friends! #quest friends hereafter #qfestions #this would be a great merch design

[teacherintransition]

Citizen of Texas or Citizen of The World?

When you travel is there any going back to being provincial?

What’s the best thought for retirees? The Great Triumvirate share their thoughts …

Philosophical, open ended, objective discussions… yes, I love ‘em. When you transition in life, you have time for this kind of high minded back and forth instead of the mindless chitchat. (Remember, I hate chitchat) There I was doing some editing on my book writing venture, when out of the blue; Radolpho of the Great Triumvirate, life long friends who were fortunate to retire early, asked an existential question in a text. Should we, those infected with wanderlust, think less of the great Lone Star State of Texas after doing some world traveling? Those outside of Texas would probably think, “who the (four letter word of your choosing) cares? Those blessed through happenstance to be Texans are more than likely divided into two schools of thought: one reacting with “BLASPHEMY,” the other reacting with, “what the hell are you talkin’ about?” No real Texan would ever completely disavow their citizenship in the beloved fraternity of being from Texas…not completely. But, if your reply is along the line of “wherr yu goin wit dat” or “What kind of stoopid quesshun is that” or “Vhat kind uff schtupid qfestion iss zat”… move along, you’ll never understand. Perhaps one might quote Texas songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard, “Screw You I’m from Texas,” …not me, but someone might.

Rudolpho and I joined in with our views of Texas in relation to the whole, wide world. The conundrum centers around, I think, the world renowned Texas braggadocio. The kind of “Don’t mess with Texas” and “everything’s bigger and better’n in Texas” mentality, you know what I’m talking about! I know of a multitude of folks who say and believe that Texas has everything…why go anywhere else. One must get out of their shells and broaden their horizons. I pray I don’t get my Texas card revoked, but there is a whole helluva lot more to this world than Texas. I’m still here? Let me go further to explain. As the saying goes “Familiarity breeds contempt,” well, not contempt just a bit of boredom? I love Texas history, the Mexican culture (I’m half Mexican), southwestern culture, the variety of geography, the international nature of Houston, Dallas etc, the amazing cross section of music: Blues (Texas Blues) Conjunto (mixture of Norteños and German polka) norteños, Tejano, Rock, the independent spirit of Texas, the historical leadership of Texans (ironically the most historically respected are of the liberal persuasion: LBJ, Barbara Jordan, Ann Richards, Lloyd Bentsen, Sam Rayburn, Ima Hogg)

All that being said I’ve always hated Texas braggadocio… hate it. I believe that Texas is a unique marvel that is culturally and geographically blessed in ways no other states could possibly be. It can also embarrassing to be Texan because of its current politics, it’s mania about guns and it’s ambivalence to school shootings, it’s disregard for public education. I say this knowing that in my opinion, Texas offers more to see, hear, taste and experience than any other state, BUT “Familiarity breeds contempt”… if you love a Whataburger great, but… if you had to eat it everyday? Bleah…To me it’s not enough once you’ve seen parts of the world only dreamed of. “How’re you gonna keep Tha boys on Tha farm now that they’ve seen Paris?” Individual sights like Mt. Denali, the Dolomites, Seattle, Rome … are to individual tastes … but an American location with such a unique variety? It’s hard to beat Texas.

Herein lies the point, the world is vast …for god’s sake …see some of it outside your state! Provincial thinking breeds all kinds of bulls***, like racism, nationalism, jingoism, flag waving chauvinism … and other -isms. We all arrived at a conclusion…it’s not unique, it’s not earth shattering, we aren’t geniuses; but we have opened ourselves to a broader perspective. We side with Socrates on this matter. From Plutarch’s Banishment, Socrates is quoted as saying, “I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.” There ya go…simple and smart. We are citizens of the world and we want to see all we can of it! Cross the borders…you’ll get it.

The best thought for retirees? There is no going back… being an early retiree, it becomes your consuming thought. Time is running out; see, do, hear, taste, travel all you can, you have the time …use it. Expenses might dictate how far you can go, but you can go! And, I gotta go the music:

Cause God blessed Texas with His own hand

Brought down angels from the Promised Land

He gave them a place where they could dance

If you wanna see Heaven, brother, here's your chance

I've been sent to spread the message

God blessed Texas*

*Seals, Brady & Howell, Porter; “God Blessed Texas;” © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC; 1993

#open mind #retirement #coffetime #stress #change #teacher #i need friends #health #writing #education #europe #self actualization #self discovery #self improvement #socialmedia #self healing #social circle #social anxiety #writer #social media #texas #austin texas #travel well #road less traveled #traveling #travel #see the world #discover the world #our world #worldwide

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Something that occurred to me:

Headless, by definition, don’t have heads.

How do they talk?

How do they hear?

How do they see?

Can they EAT?

If yes, HOW?

KYLE, HOW DOES IT WORK?!

They actually have heads, they're just

really

really

really small.

#quest friends #quest friends! #qfestions #the actual answer is I dunno Dead magic #now I want to know what your theories are

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What’s your favorite tea?

If you don’t like/drink tea, what do you like to drink instead?

ARI Ooohhh I am not a tea aficionado (ateacionado? thank you I’ll be here all day), but I am always fond of the classic chamomile tea. The hot drink I prefer to drink more is hot chocolate, specially a brand from Mexico called abuelita hot chocolate.

TOM Hmm, cinnamon and fruity teas

HALLIE Chamomile and ceylon! I also like a good mint tea

ARI Also concept: Pokémon but it’s just tea names Go chamomile! Ceylon I choose you!

KYLE There's an orange(?) tea I like. But the real answer is "whatever stresses me out" cause I only drink tea when I'm tired but need to get stuff done AKA when I'm most likely to have bad anxiety if something just so happens to give me a burst of energy As for non-tea, I usually drink water. Sometimes juice. And if I'm getting breakfast, always chocolate milk.

EMILY IT IS MY TIME I have spent way too much time, energy and money on my tea collection and getting other people into drinking more tea. I really like meadow teas (blend of florals and herbs like chamomile, calendula, lemon balm and spearmint) and bamboo tea even though everyone I talk to says it tastes like old grass. Brand-specific teas I like are vanilla nut chicory tea from Teeccino, buttermint from Twinings, and vanilla comoro from Harney and Sons. Also I’m a snob with chai and only like it if there’s cardamom and pepper in it and most floral teas have to be in specific times and Earl Grey tastes like soap and I hate it. Also tea aside yes abuelita is the best

#quest friends #quest friends! #qfestions #tea

[questfriendspodcast]

Which character (from any season) do you think has the longest name?

From longest to shortest, but still kind of long:

VIRGULE: Voyager of Irregular Geographical Undertakings and Lengthy Expeditions: Just a Rather Very Intelligent System (109 Characters, 14 Words)

MARSHAL: Mechanically Automated Research And Study Lifeform ; Just a Rather Very Intelligent System (89 Characters, 12 Words)

Q-BO: Incalculable Quorum of Beneficial Outputs; Just a Rather Very Intelligent System (80 Characters, 11 Words)

MISHA: Machine in Suit of Human Armor: Just a Rather Very Intelligent System-Badge (75 Characters, 13 Words)

CK: Coward's Koach; Just a Rather Very Intelligent System (53 Characters, 8 Words)

Sera: Seraphinia Delilah Willow Brackleberry (38 Characters, 4 Words)

Anastasia: Anastasia Margot Maria Brackleberry (34 Characters, 4 Words)

Rei: Ramya Naomi Gabriella Brackleberry (34 Characters, 4 Words)

Quique: Aurelio Enrique Hueso Canaca (28 Characters, 4 Words)

#quest friends #quest friends! #so pretty much the JARVIS and Brackleberries #and also quique #were there any we missed? #qfestions

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Questions for everyone: What’s your favourite and least favourite fanfiction trope? And what’s something you would like to see a fanfic of? (Can be anything, like characters, AU’s, specific scenes…)

(Please, I need more ideas-)

“Enemies to lovers, and I want a fanfic where Victor Kain finally builds a school in the Town-on-Gorkhon.” -Tom

"I can't believe I'm announcing this on a Tumblr post but hurt/comfort. Hurt/comfort all the way. It's my JAM. For fanfics I would want like any Xoc & Ness fic. Would love to check in where Don is at. Or Cookie Crew??? The BB's???? Would love to read a fic where hopper doesn't die." -Hallie

"I like reading cute stories with happy endings but as a general rule I am just basic and easily pleased. Seconded on the BBs especially though; Cassidy and I wanted Eraf and Ig to be a thing but didn’t really have the time to play it out and over all I just love those characters. Main cast of season 1 and season 2 stuff would be fun to see as well. Like I said, it’s not hard to make me happy." -Emily

"Messing with Hopper. There was a period of time when we had a lot of fanfiction, and a common theme was shipping hopper with anyone and everyone (resulting in my favorite Quest Friends fanfic to this day: https://archiveofourown.org/works/15855315). But while Hopper is everyone's favorite target, I just really like fanfiction that's transformative, either seriously or jokingly. Coffeshop AUs, weird ships, placing the story in a different era or the world of Hereafter - hell, even fix it fics are fun, because they change the direction of the story! Least Favorite. I don't really have a least favorite, because every time I can think of something I don't love, I can think of an example I do really like. I can struggle with really sentimental prose, but that's because I have the emotional range of a potato. What I want: I really wanted just one person to earnestly ship Xoc and Loell, but Xosha was such a damn good ship from the start that never happened. So what I'll ask for is to give me really WEIRD ships with similarly weird names, like Hop/Don or Shauna/Q-BO or Rei/Elee/Karl/Dareen/Fayz. And don't listen to Hallie. Keep killing Hopper. I love that this has somehow become a trend." -Kyle

#quest friends! #quest friends #quest friends flashback future #fanfiction #qfestions

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For the whole of this year's Hallmarked I was like "This is the plot of Cars why is no one commenting on this I'm going insane" and then Hallie made her Radiator Springs mistake and I felt reality snap back into place.

“The past few days have just been bliss hearing from fans.”

-Kyle

“I’m absolutely thrilled at the reactions we’ve been getting.”

-Hallie

#quest friends #quest friends! #qfestions #hallmarked

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Which kind of dead would your S1 characters be? My guesses are:

Hop - Skeleton

Elee - Demon

Xoc - Lich

MISHA - Lich

(Not sure about Xoc and MISHA, but since I’d say “Necrotechnology” is the equivalent of “Numenera”, that seemed the most fitting)

EMILY Those feel pretty accurate honestly

HALLIE Hops a skeleton or the sponge one Like there's always the chance he goes out taking one for the team

KYLE My pitches - Elee: Banshee. She dies with a single happy tear surrounded by her children. MISHA: Demon. If Misha dies it's gonna be in a fucking SHOW Xoc: Lich. Death by necrotech feels right Hop: What kind of dead ISN'T Hop? I'm actually gonna go with Wight, which (if I remember correctly) is someone who died unlucky. He could also be a Fury if he died during the Lorraine era, since a Fury died from betrayal

Other characters: Sera: Demon or Lich Lorraine: Headless (getting in over her head is the only way I could imagine her actually dying) Soe: Zombie. I don't know why, but "daughter tragically dying of illness" feels right for Soe. Vespari: Beaky. Don't ask me how he caught the bubonic plague Aegon: Ghost. His unfinished business is literally the plot of the campaign

HALLIE Hop does die a lot in fanfiction

KYLE And you roll for him, so...

EMILY Elee: Banshee. She dies with a single happy tear surrounded by her children*

*before anyone else’s epilogue so probs no grandchildren around

#quest friends! #quest friends #qfestions #quest friends hereafter #quest friends flashback future #the epilogue joke comes from when we listened to a live stream of the final episode #and we realized that Elee isn't mentioned once in the other epilogues #and her epilogue canonically takes place before the rest #so...

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IM SO HAPPY WE GOT A FULL VERSION OF THE SONG AND I WILL BE LISTENING TO IT ON REPEAT!!

ONE SONG FIRST, AND THEN MANY AFTER!

ONE SONG FIRST, AND THEN MANY AFTER!

ONE SONG FIRST, AND THEN MANY AFTER!

#quest friends #quest friends! #quest friends hereafter #qfestions

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When I saw "triserahops" I totally forgot about Sera and assumed that it was Hopper x one of the Dine-O-Saurs?

Damn I gotta write that now

PLEASE -Kyle

#quest friends #quest friends! #quest friends flashback future #qfestions

[questfriendspodcast]

I’m positively surprised about how chill this show’s fans are

One of the benefits of a small fanbase is that it tends to be a bit chiller, in part because it's easier to directly manage. Not that I've actually done any management myself, mind you.

I guess we just attract cool people 😎

-Kyle

#quest friends #quest friends! #qfestions #fandom is a scary thing

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if were talking crack!ships, whats your favorite flashback future one? i think im gonna have to go with Vera x Lorraine, because I just recently found out that that is apparently a thing someone has come up with and i was flabbergasted. its a pretty good one though.

HALLIE I do actually enjoy Vera x Lorraine bc it gets them both out of my hair

KYLE That assumes they don't team up

HALLIE I think they'd tire each other out though, like puppies Evil ones

KYLE I'm a sucker for any Hopper with a variant, like Hopper x Joe (disguised as Hopper) and Hopper x Evil Hop. There's just something really funny to me about shipping Hopper with himself, but with unnecessary extra steps added on

And then of course Dopper. I'm never not sharing this fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/15855315

TOM I actually don’t have any good crack ships Because they don’t compel me properly

KYLE How so?

TOM They do not spark joy The way actual ships do

HALLIE

KYLE It's not a crack!ship but I still think it's impressive that Xoc/Loell never happened. A sign of how strong the Xosha ship was

Now I gotta think of a new crack!ships tho

BLOOD BARMS AND ANEENS, WHY NOT. ALL OF THEM. ONE GIANT SHIP

EMILY On the Patreon I wrote a whole short story about Vespari befriending Haymish to resolve the angsty Haymish plotline so probably that

KYLE I've been writing a Cookie Crew visual novel in my spare time. Don't know if anything will happen, but it exists almost entirely to create crack!ships for Anastasia Brackleberry, including: -Anastasia x Eraf's Shadow -Anastasia x Hereafter Character (Booker?) -Anastasia x A.Lex x Madeline (Less as a throuple, more as a mediator) -Anastasia x Joe in Sexy Hop form -Anastasia x Badasstasia (An edgy clone of Anastasia) -Anastasia x a sentient castle

Some examples from the visual novel:

ERAF'S SHADOW ENDING CG-Eraf’s shadow dramatically holding Anastasia in a dip, but also saving her

ANASTASIA O-Oh!

ERAF’S SHADOW …

ANASTASIA Did you… come for me?

ERAF’S SHADOW …

ERAF [Off-screen] Queen Brackleberry!

ERAF [Rushing in] Are you okay?

ANASTASIA [Flustered sprite]

ERAF There you are!

ERAF’S SHADOW …

ERAF Sorry, she can have a mind of her own sometimes.

ANASTASIA [Flustered] Y-you don’t say.

BADASSTASIA ENDING ANASTASIA That’s not very nice.

BADASSTASIA But aren’t you tired of being nice?

BADASSTASIA [Seductively] Don’t you wanna go ape shit?

ANASTASIA [Flustered/blushing] Oh!

#quest friends #quest friends! #qfestions #shipping is great #and terrible #which is what makes it great

[questfriendspodcast]

Petition for a Necromon that’s just a giant bumblebee

HALLIE Beelzebumb

ARI A demon bumblebee Only appears if you say its name three times

HALLIE Beelzebug, alternatively

ARI EVEN BETTER

#quest friends #quest friends hereafter #quest friends! #qfestions

[questfriendspodcast]

Pick one (or two if you can’t decide):

a) MISHA tells a story

b) Sparky argues with Elliot for a solid minute

c) Funny moments from [insert any arc/mid-season episodes/adventure here]

d) [insert any arc/mid-season episodes/adventure here] out of context

e) Best of [insert character from S1/mid-season/S2 here]

Why do I ask this?

Time will tell…

Very selfishly, b And then d and e -Hallie B And then maybe C and D -Tom A or c -Ari E, but for LITERALLY EVERY CHARACTER. More genuinely, E: Sammy Winch And then C: The Mid-Season in general -Kyle Pesto Scuba and Sammy Winch could be fun! Also arguing Sparky and Elliot or one of the scenes of Hilda or Irene trying to bribe people -Emily [Kyle then shared his theory of what this post might be about, to which other people replied with favorite scenes, including Hop getting "No" at the end of Questionable Measures]

#quest friends #quest friends! #qfestions #i'm so sorry #you asked for 1-2 answers and got over a dozen

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Here are some more:

Ezra x The Lady with Cinnabar Lips

Joe x Evil Hop

Q-Bo x V-Bo

Snapoa Salesperson x Frank the Cinnamints Guy

Jameson Hopper x One-Eyed Joe (top tier enemies to lovers)

SNAPOA X FRANK THE CINNAMINTS GUY -Hallie

I’d say “Ein x rockryan shanksfossil,” but that’s just canon -Kyle

#quest friends #quest friends! #qfestions #god bless shipping

[questfriendspodcast]

Wasn’t there an episode that was supposed to come out last Monday?

It got rescheduled to this Monday (hopefully)!

My schedule’s been pretty scattershot, so I’ll try to get things out when I can, but if a scheduled episode doesn’t show up, more likely than not it’ll be out the following Monday.

Sorry for the scattershot releases!

#quest friends #quest friends! #qfestions